ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,594, issued on July 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).
"Dental coil for a magnetic resonance system" was invented by Stephan Biber (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a dental coil comprising a transmitter unit including an antenna, a receiver unit with an array of antennas, and a carrier element to be positioned in use on the jaw region of the patient and to follow at least part of the outer shape of the jaw region of the patient, wherein the carrier element is moreover designed to hold the array of antennas of the receiver unit in a predetermined relative positio...